Strategies and tactics to get lucky in business and in life
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
Of course it would be impossible to sell iPods in 1847 because there was no electricity, no computers, no software. However, if the same weirdo from the future , this insane salesman selling a claim that you can listen to music on a metal cigarette box with glass in it, came knocking on your door trying to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
All of us have innovative, different or just plain strange ideas from time to time in our life. If they are kept in our own mind and not shared with world then they remain simply as brain chemistry which no one can ever react to. Reaction of others is the objective of publishing your thoughts [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
Consistent Incremental Action does not sound like the sort of strategy that helps you leap to luck. Well that’s because it’s not. A key principle of The Pursuit of Luck is the “Leap: Increment Dichotomy”. Sometimes you get lucky by taking big leaps by taking risks and getting outside of your comfort zone. Sometimes luck [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2010
In Smile or Die: How Postive Thinking Fooled America & The World, Barbara Ehrenreich writes: Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a “gift”, was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force that I had not been aware [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2010
Yesterday the State Government of Tasmania announced funding for Salamanca’s MONA FOMA Festival which will ensure it continues for the next four years. Salamanca, Tasmania is considered by many to be a mini Greenwich Village, New York. MONA FOMA is an edgy and challenging music and art festival curated by Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes. MONA FOMA celebrates [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2010
At BlogMaverick, Mark Cuban describes how NBC is pursuing luck. NBC is pursuing luck (rating uplift in prime time for lower costs of production) by sacking Conan and moving Leno to prime time . The change is a hedged risk with limited downside. If it does not work then NBC can send Leno back to the late [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2010
Two cornerstone industry segments of the giant Californian economy are the film industry and venture capital industry. The film industry’s importance to California is obvious – it generates billions in export earnings and employs nearly 1 million people. The importance of venture capital is not as obvious but its importance can be appreciated when its understood that venture capital provided the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2010
It’s very tempting to limit your interactions with people to email. It’s faster, more to the point, cheaper and it creates a record of the communication. The problem is that emails do not turn into conversations and its conversations that are powerful in the pursuit of luck. In a conversation people “bounce off each other” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2010
A good business coach has the ability to motivate you, install and strengthen your core values, inspire you, help you innovate and help you get luckier. There are four types of business coaches Skills Coach – an example is a Digital Coach that would help you learn new skills in online strategy and implement those [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2010
Speed Limiters are electronic safety devices that can be fitted to heavy vehicles such as buses and semi-trucks . Some some companies such as Renault are fitting them to some of their passenger car models. Speed Limiters work by retarding the spark or fuel injection of the engine to prevent the vehicle from passing a user-determined speed. It’s not [...]